Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Atlanta—Coverings, the preeminent event for the ceramic tile and natural stone industry in North America, has revealed a select lineup of featured educational opportunities for Coverings 2024 , which will take place April 22-25, 2024, here at the Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC).

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

and Texas The workshops, spanning three hours in the afternoon or evening, are open to tile installers, contractors, sales personnel and members of the architecture and design community. The NTCA Reference Manual serves as a guiding resource throughout the training. Workshops will be held in: Calif.,

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 12, 2023

FCICA suppliers provided product demonstrations over the course of the two-day event. A total of 156 people registered to attend the event and 39 member companies exhibited during the product showcase. In addition, the event included several educational sessions as well as two keynote presentations. Tucson, Ariz.—FCICA,

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 26, 2022

“Coverings has earned a reputation for providing tile and stone professionals with access to exclusive resources, programs and educational opportunities not available anywhere else,” said Jennifer Hoff, president of Taffy Event Strategies, the event planning company for Coverings. “At Three educational stages. Coverings Lounge.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The bigger your sales and marketing teams get, the harder it is to align these efforts. Often called “smarketing,” sales and marketing alignment is critical to ensure that these departments are working in tandem to target the right customer base, create more conversions and drive more sales. Not sure how to get started?

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Las Vegas—For the second year in a row Mohawk was a multiple winner in the 2024 Best of Surfaces competition, a contest cosponsored by Floor Covering News and Informa Exhibitions, which owns and operates The International Surface Event (TISE). Radiant extruded glazed porcelain is unlike any collection in the Emser portfolio.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 17, 2023

L a s V ega s —The 2023 International Surface Event highlighted the vigor with which the flooring industry is facing today. And to give the retailers an easier way to work and communicate with their manufacturers while working together to bring opportunities to sales.” Mobile showrooms are big now,” Aya noted.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 26, 2023

Commercial flooring rebounded as sales increased 13.1% The lion’s share of sales (approximately 70%) was generated from specified contract while the remainder came from Main Street commercial applications, research shows. flooring sales, according to Floor Covering News research. from roughly $6.5 billion in 2021 to $7.34

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Diary of a Tile Addict

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Today it is a medium sized producer of porcelain tiles, and ceramic wall tiles, offering home owners and designers a wide range of contemporary solutions with its wide and diversified product portfolio. metres of tiles, achieving total sales of Euro 45.3 In 2022, Recer produced around 5 million sq. Twenties by Recer.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

NOVEMBER 4, 2023

Today it is a medium sized producer of porcelain tiles, and ceramic wall tiles, offering home owners and designers a wide range of contemporary solutions with its wide and diversified product portfolio. metres of tiles, achieving total sales of Euro 45.3 In 2022, Recer produced around 5 million sq. Twenties by Recer.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 17, 2023

The newly renovated digital platform, created exclusively for Mohawk retailers, will now home highlights from the event, including engaging digital programs, the latest in innovative technologies and consumer insights and trends. The post Mohawk adds exclusive Edge Summit resources online appeared first on Floor Covering News.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

JANUARY 27, 2024

These two events impacted me so much that in 2004 I decided to leave the sector. While you are focused on new developments, your competition is becoming stronger in your market with the development and sale of traditional products. You always have to master the production system and the sales channel.

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Floor Covering News

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Chicago—The North American Association of Flooring Covering Distributors (NAFCD) and the North American Building Material Distribution Association (NBMDA) said they have further strengthened their long-time partnership during the COVID-19 pandemic to bring forth resources and programs to meet the specific needs of the distribution channel.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 25, 2020

With its biennial Summit canceled this summer due to COVID-19, Alliance Flooring staged Connect 2020 , a virtual buying and networking event for members (see page 3). Content was also made available on-demand for those dealers who were unable to watch the event live. An educated sales professional can be the No. Mobile outreach.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 6, 2021

As Mannington Mills’ senior director of corporate communications, she is responsible for public relations as well as internal communications and can be seen wearing several hats at once, including spokesperson, community liaison, event manager, press liaison and speechwriter. All this is designed to build a foundation profitability.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Las Vegas—The resilient category had a lot to live up to coming into The International Surface Event this year, which kicked off here Jan. We’re several shows in] since January started—our SFN event was in Orlando and that was the most successful event we’ve had—so we’re carrying a lot of that energy into Vegas.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I would probably say the market’s going to be, at best, flat, maybe even a little bit down,” said Dick Quinlan, VP of sales and marketing, Wellmade. There’s still a lot of pricing mechanization going on, and as a result I think you’re going to see dollar sales will probably be down. Units might be flat.

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Floor Covering News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

He is an MBA graduate with a strong background in sales, marketing and business development. He has led the team on many projects including: The Statue of Liberty Museum, The Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Columbia University, the Second Division Memorial in President’s Park, DC and 550 Madison in New York City.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 21, 2022

What’s more, this increased resilience was designed to outperform both v-groove and traditional ceramic grout applications in terms of wear and tear. The design also allows installers to create staggered patterns while cutting total installation time in half. cor, Sheboygan, Wis.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 15, 2022

—The last time Shaw hosted its Circle of Distinction (COD) event in 2020, the world had just started shutting down. Two years later, COD was held here without that uncertainty as the company’s top sales associates from 2020 and 2021 were acknowledged. So we need to take off our sales hat and put on our solution provider hat.

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 18, 2024

Such is the case with recent events like the Israeli/Hamas War as well as the lingering conflict between Russia and Ukraine. PureGrain is said to offer greater color clarity (5x more compared to traditional film products, the company said), embossed texture dimension, enhanced abrasion properties and is designed with 35 unique planks.

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Floor Covering News

MAY 13, 2024

This was the start of a 35-year passion for sales and marketing. While Brian has a deep understanding of how sales and marketing fuel a business, he also understands that culture and people are the things that feed long-term growth. She has honed her skills as a designer through 20-plus years in the flooring industry.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Las Vegas—Six manufacturers were voted best of class in the 2020 Best of Surfaces competition, a contest sponsored by Floor Covering News and Informa Exhibitions, which owns and operates The International Surface Event (TISE). Style & Design category: Mannington. Best Booth Design (over 1,200 square feet): Dal-Tile.

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Diary of a Tile Addict

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Portugal also has a handful of technically-advanced and design-led producers, such Revigres, who can compete with the leading manufacturers from Italy, Spain, Turkey, or South America in many product categories and formats. In 2021, sales to the UK reached Euro 71.7 This grew by 6.4% over the next 12 months, to Euro 76.3

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Diary of a Tile Addict

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Portugal also has a handful of technically-advanced and design-led producers, such Revigres, who can compete with the leading manufacturers from Italy, Spain, Turkey, or South America in many product categories and formats. In 2021, sales to the UK reached Euro 71.7 This grew by 6.4% over the next 12 months, to Euro 76.3

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CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

JANUARY 30, 2012

Even the glazed tiles that became part of storefront decoration after World War II, with glossy black, maroon, and diagonal patterns or a combination of patterns and designs to attract attention to the store, fall into the decorative art category. So we have the resources to research what’s found in the home. If so, how?

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Floor Covering News

MARCH 5, 2020

Flooring retailers, including those looking to gain back lost dollars from the growing popularity of vinyl products, would do well to turn to tile and stone, which offers high dollar sales and high margins, according to suppliers at The International Surface Event (TISE) held in Las Vegas earlier this year. “We Color, sizes and shapes.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

By most accounts, TISE 2020 was another successful event in the annals of Surfaces history. We are so excited to be able to celebrate another incredible event with the industry for TISE 2020,” said Dana Hicks, TISE show director. “We The show floor was busy all three days of the event. There’s nothing like it in the market.”.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Our designs are representative of the product diversity that is in the market today,” said Audra Keiber, Mohawk’s director of design and development. “We One way the brand is investing in product design is through new technologies such as Xtra.

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Floor Covering News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Edge Store is designed to give retailers the resources they need to grow their businesses, expand their reach, drive customers in store and close sales. —Mohawk continues to revamp its Edge program with the revisioning of the in-store experience for retailers.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 2, 2020

The Playbook, an online resource containing videos, content and digital marketing materials among other tools, is designed to help dealers sell more flooring in 2020 and beyond. The first day of the Southeast and Gulf Coast Flooring Market events (SEFM and GCFM, respectively) will consist of two shows, one at 11 a.m. The 11 a.m.

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Floor Covering News

AUGUST 12, 2021

Millennials are making a name for themselves in the flooring game, taking the lead on everything from marketing to retail ownership to product design. Some of the roles include accounting, logistics, product development, marketing, HR, sales and operations. director of sales, O’Krent Floors. CEO, Johnson Hardwood. Jason O’Krent.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 6, 2021

Jay has been with Mannington for 29 years, all of them in sales. For the past 20-plus years, his signature Jay’s Basement event at Surfaces has drawn accolades for its huge success as well as huge crowds rushing to the Mannington booth at the opening bell on the first day of the show. sales office in Portland, Ore.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 6, 2021

Jay has been with Mannington for 29 years, all of them in sales. For the past 20-plus years, his signature Jay’s Basement event at Surfaces has drawn accolades for its huge success as well as huge crowds rushing to the Mannington booth at the opening bell on the first day of the show. sales office in Portland, Ore.

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Floor Covering News

APRIL 23, 2020

Chicago—On June 1, NeoCon will launch NeoConnect 2020—a series of online resources, programming and events hosted on neocon.com and designed to virtually connect the NeoCon community. NeoCon has brought the commercial design industry together every June since 1969,” said Byron Morton, VP of sales for NeoCon.

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Floor Covering News

JUNE 5, 2023

By connecting with other aligned businesses, you can share knowledge, resources and leads. Following are some tried-and-true networking tips: Attend networking events. Get their business card and after the event send them a handwritten note telling them how much you enjoyed meeting them and learning about their business.

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Floor Covering News

JANUARY 31, 2023

Perfect your sales presentation Excellence in sales is achieved by practicing three simple steps: repeat, improve and perfect. Create a technique to use the customer’s name in your sales presentation. And if you currently don’t participate meaningfully in commercial sales, you might consider expanding your focus in 2023.

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